appears in his Snopes trilogy, and he also wrote Mosquitoes and a novel in which Dilsey Gibson looks after the Compsons. For 10 points, name this author of The Unvanquished,

Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, and The Sound and the Fury. ANSWER: William Faulkner

<Luo>

The dog Lion distracts the title character of this story, nicknamed “Old Ben,” long enough for Boon Hogganbeck to kill him by slitting his throat. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this Faulkner short story found alongside “The Fire and the Hearth” and “The

Old People” in Go Down, Moses.

ANSWER: “The Bear”

[10] The main character of “The Bear” is this man, who joins the annual hunt for Old Ben

and later finds out that he is related to Lucas Beauchamp.

ANSWER: Isaac “Ike” McCaslin [accept Isaac; accept Ike] <Douglass>

4. Rowley and Tollison wrote a book on the political economy of “seeking” this quantity, and such “seeking behavior” also applies to companies that attempt to secure government benefits. This term generally refers to the compensation received for a factor beyond the

cost necessary to maintain operation, and in ideal, perfect competition, it would not exist.

For 10 points, give this term, most commonly applied to the periodic cost of tenancy in a

dwelling one does not personally own.

ANSWER: economic rent

<Kwartler>

Bonus: Name these taxes, for 10 points each.

[10] This tax system, common in Europe, individually taxes every step of the production

process of a good rather than taxing the consumer at the final purchase.

ANSWER: value-addedtax [accept VAT]

[10] This tax is levied on the sale of financial assets, most commonly stocks and bonds.

ANSWER: capital gains tax

<Kwartler>

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5. One of his sons was blinded by Nomia. Statues of him were intended to bring

prosperity and luck and marked the boundary of one’s property, and he assisted the Fates

with the alphabet by reducing sounds to characters. With cow-gut and a tortoise shell, he

created a musical instrument which he gave to Apollo in exchange for cattle he stole as a

child. He slew Argus after lulling him to sleep, and he served as a psychopomp, or guide

of souls. For 10 points, name this winged-sandal wearing messenger of the Greek gods.

ANSWER: Hermes [accept Mercurybefore “Greek” is read]<Beyer>

Bonus: Saved by Hermes after the death of Semele, he was raised by the nymphs of

Nysa, For 10 points each:

[10] Name this carrier of the thyrsus who gave Midas the gift of the golden touch.

ANSWER: Dionysus

[10] After this King of Thebes banned the worship of Dionysus, his limbs were torn apart

by the Maenads in a process known as sparagmos.

ANSWER: Pentheus

<Beyer>

6. He spent a year in Tunis after his teacher Charles Folsom was made consul there.

After he arrived too late to participate in the capture of San Juan de Ulloa, he asked to be

relieved of duties in the Mexican War. He established a station at Mare Island before the

Civil War, during which he captured Forts Morgan and Gaines and uttered a certain

phrase. For 10 points, name this Union naval commander who won the battle of Mobile

Bay, where he famously cried out “Damn the torpedoes!”ANSWER: David Farragut

<Yaphe>

Bonus: On June 22, 1807, the American ship Chesapeake was overtaken by a British frigate, which fired after demanding to board and seize deserters. For 10 points each:

[10] This man replaced James Barron as commander of the Chesapeake after the incident

and was killed in a duel by Barron. He burned the Philadelphia during the Barbary wars. ANSWER: Stephen Decatur

[10] The Chesapeake was later commanded by James Lawrence, who was killed in

combat against the HMS Shannon after uttering this five-word command.

ANSWER: “Don’t give up the ship!”

<Kendall>

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7. He worked in a lower space than Michelangelo, painting the Sistine Chapel walls

while working on The Youth of Moses and Temptation of Christ. Around 1500, he

abandoned art to become a follower of Savonarola, leaving behind such paintings as one

showing a flying blue man, three dancing girls, and a lot of yellow fruit, and another in

which a red wrap with black spots is about to be thrown over the title figure. For 10

points, name this student of Fra Lippo Lippi who painted Primavera and The Birth of

Venus.

ANSWER: Sandro Botticelli

<Luo>

Bonus: For 10 points each, name these other painters who used classical subjects.

[10] His Bacchus and Sick Bacchus preceded his larger body of Christian works, including Supper at Emmaus and The Conversion of St. Paul.

ANSWER: Caravaggio [or Michelangelo Merisida Caravaggio] [10] Paris and Helen, The Lictors Bringing to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons, and The

Oath of the Horatii are among the scenes by this French Neoclassicist.

ANSWER: Jacques-Louis David

<Weiner>

8. This procedure depends on the Bayer process to refine its raw material. Two main

methods for regenerating the carbon anode are the Soderberg and prebake, the latter of

which is environmentally healthier as it does not involve burning pitch. It followed the

same general idea as the Wohler process it replaced, with its innovation being a cheaper

cryolite mixture rather than sodium to lower the melting point of the ore in question, a

mineral derived from bauxite. Invented by two men who both lived and died in the same

years, for 10 points name this process that reduces alumina ore to aluminum metal.

ANSWER: Hall-Heroult process

<Rahman>

Bonus: For 10 points each, identify each of these processes named for someone.

[10] Ammonia can be produced commercially through this process that reacts nitrogen

and hydrogen gas over an iron catalyst at high pressures.

ANSWER: Haber-Bosch process

[10] Ammonia can be further oxidized into nitric acid by this process that oxides the

ammonia then absorbed by water.

ANSWER: Ostwald process

<Mitchell>

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9. A scene in the film L’Inferno was based on one of these created by Gustave Dore,

based on Dante’s Canto 28. Many of them show the cleansing of the heart by Gabriel or the Night Journey, and they often use fire or cloth to cover the face. A recent set of them,

solicited by children’s book author Kåre Bluitgen, first appeared in Egypt’s Al-Fagr. For

10 points, what items were later republished by Jyllands-Posten, a paper based in

Denmark, offending the tenets of many Islamic sects and causing February 2006 riots?

For 10 points, name this physicist, the "father of statistical mechanics," who shares credit

for the “T to the fourth” blackbody law with Stefan. ANSWER: Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann

<Teitler>

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5. Elhanan may have killed this man’s brother Lahmi, though a reading of the source

Hebrew says Elhanan killed this figure himself and indicates that Jerusalem was in the

possession of the Jebusites at the time that this figure’s head was supposedly displayed.

Rashi used the length of his coffin to estimate the dimensions of this man, who met his

demise in the valley of Elach under the forces of Saul. For 10 points, name this Philistine

warrior, beheaded after being felled by a stone from David.

ANSWER: Goliath [or Gath]

<Passner>

6. His The Child Buyer is rumination on the value of public education, while an obsessed

craftsman becomes involved with a woman trying to escape her past in The Walnut Door. His time as a war correspondent inspired his Into the Valley and Men on Bataan, while another of his works appeared as a report in The New Yorker on August 31, 1946, about one year after the events depicted in it occurred. For 10 points, identify this author of The Wall, A Bell for Adano, and Hiroshima.

ANSWER: John Hersey

<Berdichevsky>

7. Originally consisting of five members and chaired by Thomas Cooley, this body was

formed after the decision in the Wabash v. Illinois case. It primary power was reduced

greatly in 1980 with the passage of the Staggers Act, and it was disbanded in 1996. It was

earlier strengthened with the Mann-Elkins Act and the Hepburn Act, the latter of which

gave it discretion over freight rates and accounting practices by transportation companies.

For 10 points, name this agency created in 1887 to oversee the railroad industry.

ANSWER: Interstate Commerce Commission

<Frankel>

8. His second piano sonata alludes to his earlier The Slaves’ Shuffle and Demons’ Dance Around the Pipe and is accompanied by a volume of essays. That sonata was his first

publicly performed work after a fifteen-year sabbatical and has such movements as

“Emerson,” “Hawthorne,” “The Alcotts,” and “Thoreau.” For 10 points, name this

composer of the Camp Meeting symphony, Three Places in New England, and The Unanswered Question, who created the aforementioned work, the Concord Sonata. ANSWER: Charles Edward Ives

<Ismail>

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Bonuses

Arts: Discovered at the Villa Ludovisi, its subject is prone and leaning on his right arm,

wearing only an open-ended necklace and an anguished facial expression. For 15 points,

name this Hellenistic statue sometimes called the “Wounded Gladiator.”ANSWER: The Dying Gaul

<Ismail>

Current Events: Twins by this surname founded the right-wing Law and Justice Party,

with one of them becoming the president of Poland in 2005. For 15 points, give this name

also borne by a former Berkeley math professor, Ted, who was convicted of being the

Unabomber.

ANSWER: Kaczynski

<Southard>

Geography: The Siachen Glacier is controlled by India, the Aksai Chin and Trans-

Karakorum Tract are part of China, and Gilgit and Baltistan are provinces of Pakistan.

For 15 points, all are found in what region, which four countries border or claim part of?

ANSWER: Kashmir[do not accept “Jammu and Kashmir”]<Greenstein>

History: Friedrich List first popularized the idea of states combining to abolish trade

barriers and tariffs. For 15 points, what organization of states, whose name comes from

the German for “customs union,” did List’s suggestion help found in 1834?

ANSWER: Zollverein

<Berdichevsky>

Literature: He spoke out about self-induced cultural inferiority in Children of the Mire

and wrote the cubist play Salamandra. For 15 points, name this author of Sun Stone and

the rumination on Mexican culture, The Labyrinth of Solitude.ANSWER: Octavio Paz

<Berdichevsky>

Popular Culture: His first Winston Cup start was the same as Richard Petty’s last. He

won the inaugural Brickyard 400 and took the series championship in 1995, 1997, 1998,

and 2001. For 15 points, name this three-time Daytona 500 winner and driver of the #24

DuPont car.

ANSWER: Jeff Gordon

<Bykowski>

Religion/Mythology/Philosophy: One of its proponents was the author of The Visible

and the Invisible, Maurice Merleau-Ponty. For 15 points, name this philosophical school

that tries to describe experience per se and was founded by Edmund Husserl.